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88% of reviewers
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$5.70
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8.7
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Candle_Gal
Registered: Sep 2006
Posts: 10
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Review Date: Mon Nov 6, 2006
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Would you recommend the brand? Yes |
Price you paid?: $3.89
| Rating: 6
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Great service, excellent prices, fast shipping
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The scents are just not quite right, underlying wax scent
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After reading the great reviews I ordered several bags of melting hearts from Candle-licious.
First, the positives. Great customer service, very fast turnaround time, and excellent competitive prices. The melting hearts are appealing as a gift also, because the tiny hearts are really cute.
Now, the not so positives. While I do think a few of the scents I chose are quite nice, I agree with other reviews that there is *something* I can't put my finger on that is a common underlying scent in every one of the scents I bought. It's not exactly perfume-y, it just smells...waxy? Hard to describe, but the foody scents, fruity scents and florals all had something unfamiliar on each cold sniff. Perhaps it is their wax formula?
The scent throw is strong and fills a whole room (or more) easily. I used 10 melting hearts at a time. Each bag contains 40 hearts, so I figure I'll get 4 uses out of each bag. The price is right - that makes it less than a dollar for each melting session. Definitely great on prices.
While the muslin bag they come in is a cute idea, I honestly found it a little cumbersome. I ended up pouring the hearts out of the muslin sachet bag and just storing them in the plastic baggies instead. IF you want to use these as drawer sachets, the muslin bag would be good for that purpose.
Onto the scents:
Coconut Smoothie - a definite coconut but not overwhelming, with sweetness combined. It's not knock-your-socks-off coconut but it's nice.
White Tea - smells like a lovely, calm floral, would love it in my master bathroom. Very strong.
Fresh Linen - basic clean laundry scent, also very strong.
Peppermint - nice basic peppermint extract type scent, also very strong on cold sniff. Probably the most realistic of all the scents I got. I think of candy canes - so I will be melting this a lot around the holidays.
Very Vanilla - still haven't found the right vanilla and this isn't it either - this is more your grocery store vanilla extract type scent, not gourmet - and that waxy undertone mentioned above is really pungent in this one particularly.
Sun Ripened Raspberry & Strawberry Daquiri - honestly, I do not think I will melt either of these because I'm not fond of either on cold sniff at all. I found these a bit artificial smelling.
Caramel Apple - nice on cold sniff, I get equal sweet caramel plus fresh apples. I like the caramel a lot and think a straight caramel from this company would be very nice. *update - not a very good scent throw even with a total of 12 mini hearts in my tart melter*
Cinammon Spice - not my favorite cinnamon - I like that rich, pungent scent of true cinnamon vs. the "red hot candies" type. It's hard for me to describe this particular cinnamon, it's a little spicy but again there's almost something a little perfumey about this one - was not the rich dark cinnamon scent I prefer.
Again, this is a nice company to do business with. They included complimentary melting hearts in my order, and their prices are great.
A final note - you know how there are certain candles or melts you burn and you could swear a pie was in the oven, because the scent is SO authentic? Well, I think I pinpointed what bothers me most about Candle-licious - it is so obvious you have a candle or a melt going because the scents are just not very authentic or "real". That doesn't mean some scents aren't nice, because they are. It just means you won't fool anyone including yourself with these candles because they carry a very obvious "candle wax smell" alongside their fragrance oils.
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legollama
Registered: Dec 2006
Posts: 1
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Review Date: Sun Dec 17, 2006
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Would you recommend the brand? Yes |
Price you paid?: None indicated
| Rating: 10
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Strongly scented
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I just recieved my order on Friday. As soon as I opened the box, I could smell the candles! It was great! I quickly lit my new Carmel Apple votive on my bedside table. Within minutes I could notice the difference in the room. The carmel apple actually smelled better than the real thing I walked by at Christmas in the park(although that may have been due to the fact that I was eating a churro). I will be ordering from Candleicious again as soon as I burn all of my candles, which may take a while. The burn time is surprisingly long. Two thumbs up. 
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eaklause
Registered: Jan 2007
Posts: 3
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Review Date: Wed Jan 17, 2007
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Would you recommend the brand? Yes |
Price you paid?: None indicated
| Rating: 10
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Phenomenal scents and burning smell, awesome customer service, fast shipping, great prices
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None!
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I have found my candle providers. While I like Partylite for their pieces, I LOVE Candlelicious for their candles. I have finally found the place that I will buy all my candles from. The scents are great and the smell once you light the candles? Look out! Talk about triple-scented. Seriously, I will buy from no other and I'm going to tell all of my friends and family to shop from them too.
I actually found these guys through this site. I got my candles SUPER fast! One of my favorite things they sell is the tarts. I bought one of the electrical tart warmers and I love throwing a few tarts in and seeing that warm glow and smelling those awesome scents!
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veronicaebert
Registered: Mar 2007
Posts: 3
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Review Date: Tue Mar 13, 2007
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Would you recommend the brand? Yes |
Price you paid?: None indicated
| Rating: 9
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YUM...wonderful scents, good burn
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shipping takes a while
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I ordered several votives to get a taste of these candles. They arrived nicely packaged with complimentary matches, which I thought was a nice touch. My review is as follows: Coconut Smoothie-Extremely yummy but doesn't really smell like coconut--more like cotton candy only not as sweet. Whatever it is, it ROCKS. Pomegranete- Once again, YUM. My boyfriend loved this smell, and he doesn't like many candle smells.Very fresh, fruity and not too sweet. Sugared Plums-Awesome scent with sugary plum smell; this one is sweet and good. Sex on the Beach- mixture of melon smells but not as strong as the three mentioned above. Nice smell though. Sun Ripened Raspberry-WOW the throw on this one is stupendous, and it is a true raspberry. All these votives had a great throw and scented all the open space in my kitchen and living room. They also completely liquified, like a good candle should. The only problem I am having is that the wick on one of my pomegranete candles will not stay lit. It appears to be an isolated problem. I just ordered a jar candle and some melts in the same scents as above, but I will report back on any new scents. So far, these are wonderful candles.
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unchienne
Registered: Jun 2007
Posts: 8
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Review Date: Sat Jun 23, 2007
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Would you recommend the brand? Yes |
Price you paid?: $1.69
| Rating: 8
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Pros:
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Nice selection of candle sizes, strong throw, long lasting
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Limited scent variety, some scents are very artifical smelling
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I purchased a tealight variety pack from the company to try the scents out. I had heard that the votives were very strong scented but had no idea how wonderful the tealights were as well. One tealight alone threw enough scent to fill my entire bedroom after only 15-20 min. of burn time.
While the scents themselves are not complex (the rose petal tealight smelled like cheap bath salts) and somewhat limited, the strength of the smell from such a little candle more than makes up for it. My favorite scents were the Fresh Linen (smells just like my dryer sheet...snuggliscious) and Rain (which really does have a "watery" smell to it).
Updated 10-20-07
Have now tried almost all of their votives and have developed definite favorites. First, let me say that I am not a fruit person and dislike most fruity flavors...for candles at least. Which is why I disliked Pomegranate and Merlot. The votives were wonderfully strong and one was able to fill up a large room within minutes. My favorites list has been revised to include Angelic (a musky floral with a touch of baked goodness) which I burn in my bedroom almost constantly. Walk in the woods was a bit too "cedar chip" for my personal tastes and I've found that I just prefer the Nag Champa incense sticks over the candles. Maybe it's the smoke and Eastern connotations that I really like...who knows. The lavendar scent suffered the same detractor as the rose: too articial smelling. I've just included a white tea votive with my latest Angelic shipment and will be trying that out next. Have to wait till this headcold leaves me though. 'Cause right now I can't smell a thing.
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